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My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I…
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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
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The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
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Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has…
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This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.
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Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change -…
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I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10…
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Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
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The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
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I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it…
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Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and…
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Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles…
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The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
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Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.…
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In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.
— Willis Polk
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Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
— Richard Rogers
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